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Define Obligation
An obligation is a course of action that someone is required to take, whether legal or moral. There are also
obligations in other normative contexts, such as obligations of etiquette, social obligations, and possibly
in terms of politics, where obligations are requirements which must be fulfilled. These are generally legal
obligations, which can incur a penalty for non-fulfillment, although certain people are obliged to carry out
certain actions for other reasons as well, whether as a tradition or for social reasons.

Form of obligation
The obligor: obligant duty-bound to fulfill the obligation; he who has a duty.
The obligee: obligant entitled to demand the fulfillment of the obligation; he who has a right.
The subject matter, the prestation: the performance to be tendered.
A legal bond, the vinculum juris: the cause that binds or connects the obligants to the prestation.

Sources of Obligation
Obligation may arise directly from agreement. Here we find that form of agreement which constitutes
contract. An offer is made by one person and accepted by another, so that one consents to intend, and the
other to expect, the same thing; and the result of this agreement is a legal tie, binding the parties to one
another in respect to some future act or forbearance.